Eyeset fob fasteners



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. BISHOP, OF CLEV'ELAND, OHIO.

EYEI'SET IOR FASTENERS.

Speciflcation o! Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

Applioation fi1ed September 5 1917. Serial N0. 189,830.

" ticularl to new and-improved means e bodied m the eyelet portions thereof. More particularly, .my invention relates to new and improved eyelets for use in fasteners designed f'or securing automobile curtains. My inventioi1 is designed to provide a spring er pliable eyelet which Will accommodate itself to the various irregularities of the fastener stud and thereby provide an eifieient anti-rattler. This is a0.- complished by the .eyelet adapting itself to the fastener stud in all relative positions of the eyel'et and stud but not by the eyelet gripping the stuol for the purpose of locking 1 the fastener. I have designed this new and nnproved eyelet particularly for use with that desirable form of stud 01' button known as the turning-head or turn-button type but, as mentioned above, the design is not meant to securely lock the fastener stud -without the use of the usual locking means,

Whi0h is, in the type of button to which this eyelet is best adapted, the turning-heacl, but is designed to provide close adaptation of the eyelet to the stud.

The annexed drawing and the following description sei: forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the inve'ntion may be emplyed.

In said annexed drawing: v

Figure 1 represents, upon an enlarged scale,;a longitudinal sectional view partially in eilevation of Iny improved eyelet in use with a .stud of the turn-button type, the wholeshown in use with an ai1tomobile eurtain;, Fig. 2 represents an elevation, from the front of the curtain fabrie, of the ele- 'ments shown in Fig, 1; Fig. 3 represents an elemtion -;from the'rear .o f e curtin iab ric; Fig. 4 represents a front e levation 0f a yvasher forming one of the elements of my 1mproved eyelet; Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section taken in the plane indicated by the line VV, Fig. 4; F1g. 6 represents a rear elevation of said washer;- Figs. 7, 8 and 9 represent, respectively sections taken in the laues indidated by the lines VIIVII VIII-VIII and IXIX, Fig.

4=; and Fig. 10 represents an elevation of a stampedblank bef0re the sa'me is turned up 1nto its final form as a complete washer.

In said annexed drawing, 1 represents said washer, being an elliptical shaped ring, more articularly hereinafter described, the same ing shown seCured to the under side of'an automobile curtain fabric 2 by means of the prongs 3 of an ordinary gromet 4,

as lainly shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3. Saicl eye et 1 is formed with two oppositely disposed spring-sectiom 5 adapted to receive a button and adapt themselves to the body thereof, as plainly indicated in the drawing and as hereinafter more fully described. The blank from which saicl washer 1 is formed is stamped t0 form s1ots 6 to receivethe prongs 3 of the gromet 4; slots 7, the purpose 0f Which will be hereinafter more fully explained; and a central slot 8 serving t0 provide the ordinary eyelet opening, all

as plainly shoWn in Fig. 10. Also as lainly shown in said figure, said blank is ormed with a number of sets of transverse cut s 9,

- there being four of such sets and two cuts 130 a set. y The staniped blank, as it appears in Fig. 10, is formed up with the spring elements 5 to eomplete the washer. Said spring elements 5 consist in the depressed spring end portions 10 dispoed mtermediately each air of transverse cuts 9, and the transverse y extending portions consisting 0f the relatively shallow central par 1; 11 and the relatively high end parts 12. Ssilid end arts 12 are turned outwardly to such a epth that the bottom 0f said outwardly turned .parts 1ie substantially in the same horizontal plane as the top of the central parts 11, as' plainly sliown by the line A-B, Fig. 5, said line A-.B lying in the eriphery df one ellipse, whereas the top 0F the outwardly turxied ends 13 lie in the eriphery of a seeondlarger and surroundmg ellipse.

The above-described eyelet is adapted for nse with any form of stud orbutton bnt the turning-head type, shown at 14, in Fig. 1, I have found preferable for use with the same. This button 14 is secured at its base to the frame 15 of an automobile body.

As Will be readily understood from the foregoing description, when 1nyimproved eyelet is foreed over the body 16 of the batton 14, the two spring seetions 5 are pressed outwardly and accommodate themselves to the sides of the body 16, thus forming an eflicient anti-rattler.

It; has been found by the use 0f fasteners heretofore known, in whieh a button of the general type shown in Fig. 1 has been used,

if the stud has not been earefully finished a'nd, sometimes for other reasons, upon the removal of the eyelet from the button, portions of the eyelet, usually the spring portions, Will catch up0n ehe bottom of.the button head and thus render the removal of the eyelet frorn the button exceedingly annoying and troublesome. The eonstruction whieh I have designed as an eflicient antirattler and Which has been hereinbefore described and is plai1ily shown in the aecom panying drawing, also obviates this lastmentioned difliculty and annoyance, inasmuCh as, by the provision of the outwardly bent end s 13 of the spring seetions' 5, the portions Of the ends 12 whieh contact with the body of the button 14 lie below the bottom horizontal plane 0f the outwardly bent parts 13, Fig. 8. In fact, the npper eontacting line of the ends 12 is designed to be a continuation of, and in the Same horizontal plane with, the 'upper eontacting line 0f the central depressed parts 11 01 the spring sections 5, all as is plainly shown in the drawings and partieularly by the dotted line A B, Fig. 5. It.is readily apparent that this construetion throws the ends 13 of the spring sections 5, when said ends are about 'to pass over the botto-m of the head of the button 14, outWardly firom the edges 0f the bottom of' said head With whieh they might cateh, and th11s effecfisuch a clearance as to obviate any danger of such interference. A further advantage of my improved eyelet results from the faet that the spring seetions 5 and the elliptical curve shown assist in throwing the button 14 out from the eyelet When a separation of the button from the eyelet is started.

What I clairn is: 1. A butbon fasbener comprising, a memher having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon; and an eyelet comprising a gromet surronnding said body, said head interlocking with said gromet against withdrwal therefrom in a predetermined positionof rotative adjustment, and a spring plate adapted to intersect the gromet Opening, be displaced by said body, and aflording, for anti-rattling purposes, a close adaptation of the eyelet to the body member in all relative. positions 0f said eyelet and member.

2. A button fasteniar comprising, a memher having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon; and an eyelet eornprising a gromet surroundin said body, said head interlocking with sai gromet against withdrawal therefrorn in a predetermined position of rotative adjustment, and a resilient washer adapted to intersect the gromet opening, be displaeed by said body, and aflording, for anti-rattling purposes, a elose adaptation of the eyelet t0 the body mernber in all relative positions of said eyelet and member.

3. A button fastener eomprising, a member having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon; and an eyelet eomprising a gromet surrounding said body, said head interlocking with said gromet against withdrawal therefrom in a. predetermined osition of rotative adjnstment, and a pa1r of oppositely disposed spring elements adapted to interseet the gromet opening, be displaced by said body and aifording, for anti-rattling purposes, a elose adaptation of the eyelet to the body member in all relative positions of said eyelet and member.

4. A button fasiiener eomprising, a mem ber having a body and a head rotatably mountedthereon; and an eyelet eomprising a gromet surrounding said body, said head interlocking with said gromet against withdrawal therefrom in a predetermined position 0f rotative adj ustment, and one 0r more spring elements lying in the peripher} of an ellipse and adapted to intersect the gromet opening, be displaced by said body, and affording, fp"r anti-rattling purposes, a clo'se adaptatiori of the eyelet 130 the body member in all relative positions 0f said eyelet and member.

5. In an improved eyelet f0r fasteners, a body portion formed with an eyelet opening 7. A button fastener comprising a member' having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon, and an eyelet coperating therewith and adapted to encircle said body, said eyelet having an interior diseonnu9flssurface and a transversely exten ding spring element presented toward said body, segmental portions of said surface being curved to provide opposed resilient tongues adapted to grip Sa.id b0dy' and said head interlocking with said eyelet against withdrawal therefrom in a redetennined position 0f rotative adjustrnen% 8. A button fastener comprising a member having a 1body and a. head rotatably mounted thereon, und an eyelet coperating therewith and adapbed to encircle said body, said eyelet presenting one 01 more spring portions to bear on and be displaced substantially radially by said body and said head interlocking with said eyelet against withdrawal therefrom in a predetermined position of rotative adjustment.

9. A button fastener comprising a member having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon, and eyelet means coperating therewith, adapted to encircle said body, and

comprising curved spring segments adapted to gr'1p said body and a, gromet formed with an eyelet opening, said segments intersecting said opening and said head interlocking With said eyeletagainst withdrawal therefrom in a predetermined osition of rotative adjustment.

10. A button fastener comprising a mem- =ber having a body and a head rotatably mounted thereon, and an eyelet coperating th'erewith und adapted to encircle said body,

GEORGE E. BISI-IOP.

Signed by me, this 29', day of August, 

